“Joy is an act of resistance.” – Toi Derricotte The unabashed bluntness of Moonchild Sanelly’s music reminds me of a line from  riot...

Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue  and the strange qualities of jazz improvisation. On the second day of March 1959, “So What”, the opening track...

WORKING AS A YOUNG PRESENTER ON RADIO 5 in South Africa in 1988 was both exhilarating and fraught with tension. The country was deep in...

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